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Elliot Love
Elliot’s work is a documentation of an older generation of cars, as they move on in their later years and how the life of the car evolves. Do they get the care and attention needed to stay on the road? Or does the inevitable slow creep of time take its toll, as new innovation takes their place.
Geometric harmony is important in his compositions. The urban landscape is the perfect playground for Elliot to use horizontal and vertical lines as key axis points in his paintings. The tops of buildings, footpaths, and lampposts all act as tools to help break the painting up into specific regions. Important elements are often placed on golden ratio lines, and the scene is frequently broken into the rule of thirds.
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Artworks by Elliot Love
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‘73 Challenger // Balclutha
See Artwork »I came across this orange Challenger when I was down in the South Island visiting family a few years back. The weather was harsh on this day – it had recently stopped raining, but there was still an icy wind. Standard South Island winter. The central lamp post plays an important role compositionally, as it leads the eye upwards from the subject car, into the misty heavens above. The orange Challenger provides the only warmth in what is a very cold scene.
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Morris 1300 // Newmarket
See Artwork »“This scene was one that I stumbled across in Newmarket earlier this year. The thing that immediately grabbed my attention was seeing how small older cars used to be, particularly with this 1972 Morris sandwiched between the two modern SUV’s.
I liked the symmetry this arrangement of cars brought to the scene, not to mention the deep blue sky contrasting well against the bright orange subject car.”
